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Dangerous unusual events Dangerous unusual event The burly royal family Enchanted Memories Mountainous Magenta Visions overwhelming people Hysterical Acid trips Adjoining flimsy scare wilderness subdued history the mood of society disturbed by events currency disruptions grandmother decides fate of humanity she has a beer at midnight Drama her priority took much to drink spent time in the bathroom contemplating reality she has an appointment with a doctor in the morning 1. erect 2. 3. unusual 4. 5. royal 6. 7. dangerous 8. 9. acid 10. 11. enchanted 12. 13. magenta 14. 15. mountainous 16. 17. hysterical 18. 19. adjoining 20. 21. technical 22. 23. burly 24. 25. scarce 26. 27. flimsy 28. 29. subdued 30. 31. math 32. 33. history 34. distribution 35. mood 36. society 37. grandmother 38. currency 39. beer 40. midnight 41. priority 42. bathroom 43. drama 44. appointment 45. hat 46. promotion April 23, 2023: Poetry Writing Prompt from Richard-Yves Sitoski This poetry writing prompt submitted by Richard-Yves Sitoski: Imagery Prompts: Avoiding Cliché Through “Juxatives” The best poetry avoids cliché using cognitive leaps. I don’t want red roses signifying love; rather, love may be a set of curtains that shuts out the outside world and keeps you and your dear ones together, or perhaps it’s molten lava that first burns all it touches but later cools into something solid you can build a house on. How do we make these creative leaps? My fellow poet Kristan Anderson and I came up with the term “juxative,” for juxtapositions of terms that normally wouldn’t frequent each other. These juxatives can be expanded into full images. To do it, create lists of adjectives and lists of nouns, verbs, and adverbs, or adjectives and adverbs. Then jumble them up so that random adjectives get applied to random nouns, etc. SILLY + RIVER = What does that give us? Something better than a babbling brook, I’ll wager. ANGRY + CHRISTMAS GIFT = Suddenly the holidays take on whole new implications. CRYING + PILLOW = More forceful than crying into your pillow—you’re so down that your pillow itself is crying along with you. The next step is to see how you can expand these. LIMPING + MOUTH = “After the dentist, I spoke with a limp” FLOWERY + KEY = “I practiced the piano till the keys turned to flowers” HAPPY + THUNDER = “My childhood was a thunderstorm of happiness” These images are often so striking and effective that they can spawn entire poems! If you write a poem from this prompt, post it as a comment underneath the prompt in the Poetry Super Highway Facebook Group. #napowrimo #poetry Fa |